People

• Zap, stage name of female bodybuilder Raye Hollitt
  Raye Hollitt
  Raye Hollitt is an American actress and female bodybuilder, also known by her stage name Zap, one of the original cast members of American Gladiators...
  
   on the TV show American Gladiators
  American Gladiators
  American Gladiators is an American competition television program that aired in syndication from September 1989 to May 1996. The series matched a cast of amateur athletes against each other, as well as against the show's own gladiators, in contests of strength and agility.The concept was created by...
  
  
• Zap Rowsdower, a character from the film The Final Sacrifice
  The Final Sacrifice
  The Final Sacrifice is a low-budget Canadian horror film released in 1990. It was directed by Tjardus Greidanus, and stars Christian Malcolm as Troy McGreggor and Bruce J. Mitchell as Zap Rowsdower.-Plot:...
  
  

Computer programming

• .ZAP File
  ZAP File
  A .ZAP File is a text file, which allows the publishing of an application to a user on a Microsoft Windows system , for applications for which a .MSI file does not exist...
  
  , a file extension allowing publishing of an application to users where an MSI file does not exist
• zap, the ISO 639-3 and 639-2 code for Zapotec languages

Books

• Zap is a half-tame female cat in the SF
  Science fiction
  Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
  
   novel Memory
  Memory (Bujold novel)
  Memory is a science fiction novel by Lois McMaster Bujold, first published in October 1996. It is a part of the Vorkosigan Saga, and is the eleventh full-length novel in publication order.- Plot summary :...
  
   by Lois McMaster Bujold
  Lois McMaster Bujold
  Lois McMaster Bujold is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record. Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo...
  
  

Comics

• Zap Comix
  Zap Comix
  Zap Comix is the best-known and one of the most popular of the underground comics that emerged as part of the youth counterculture of the late 1960s. While not believed to be the first underground comic to have been published, Zap is considered to mark the beginning of the "underground comix"...
  
  , an underground comics series founded by Robert Crumb in 1968
• Zap! (webcomic)
  Zap! (webcomic)
  Zap!, often erroneously referred to as Zap in Space, is a sci-fi webcomic currently hosted on Keenspot. The series began on 2003-07-13. At first it updated twice or sometimes three times a week. Somewhere around February 2007 it switched to updating once a week, every Monday. This seems to...
  
  , a sci-fi webcomic by Chris Layfield and Pascalle C
• Zap Zodiac
  Zap Zodiac
  Zap Zodiac was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. Drawn by Steve Horrocks, it first appeared in issue 3259, dated 1 January 2005, as part of Comic Idol- a selection of three comic strips to be voted in by Beano readers...
  
  , a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano

Television

• ZAP (satellite television)
  ZAP (satellite television)
  ZAP is a digital satellite television provider mainly for Portuguese speaking countries in sub-Saharan Africa. ZAP launched in Angola in 2010, providing a subscription based TV service covering the sub-Saharan countries to south of Angola...
  
   is a digital satellite television operator in Sub-saharan Africa

Other entertainment

• Zap! (computer game), a 2005 top-down shooter by GarageGames
• Zap (G.I. Joe)
  Zap (G.I. Joe)
  Zap is a character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and cartoon series of the 1980s. He is the G.I. Joe team's original bazooka soldier and debuted in 1982.-Profile:...
  
  , a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
• "Zap" (song), an instrumental by Eric Johnson
  Eric Johnson
  Eric Johnson is an American guitarist. Though he is best known for his success in the instrumental rock format, Johnson regularly incorporates jazz, fusion, gospel and country and western music into his recordings...
  
  
• ZZZap!
  ZZZap!
  Zzzap was a British children's television comedy programme. The concept of the show was a giant comic that has been brought to life. The show ran from 8 January 1993 until 21 September 2001, and was produced by The Media Merchants and Meridian Broadcasting...
  
  , a 1990s British children's television programme for deaf children
• Zapping is a synonym for channel surfing
  Channel surfing
  Channel surfing is the practice of quickly scanning through different television channels or radio frequencies in order to find something interesting to watch or listen to. Modern viewers, who may have cable or satellite services beaming down dozens if not hundreds or thousands of channels, are...
  
  
• Zap Mama
  Zap Mama
  Zap Mama is a Belgian musical group founded and led by Marie Daulne. Daulne says her mission is to be a bridge between the European and the African and bring the two cultures together with her music...
  
  , a Belgian musical group founded and led by Marie Daulne

Social

• ZAP, Zenith Applied Philosophy
  Zenith Applied Philosophy
  Zenith Applied Philosophy is a Christchurch, New Zealand based organisation founded by John Dalhoff in 1974. ZAP has a world view which is a combination of Scientology, Eastern mysticism and the ideas of the American John Birch Society. There is extensive overlap between the organisation and the...
  
  , a breakaway sect of Scientology based in Christchurch, New Zealand
• ZAP, Zero Aggression Principle, a personal philosophy
• Zap (action)
  Zap (action)
  A zap is a form of political direct action that came into use in the 1970s in the United States. Popularized by the early gay liberation group Gay Activists Alliance, a zap was a raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity while calling the attention of both gays...
  
  , a direct political action favored by early gay Liberation groups

Automobiles

• Zap, or Zaporozhets, a long-lived series of small, rear-engined Soviet Ukrainian cars
• ZAP (motor company)
  ZAP (motor company)
  ZAP is an electric vehicle company that designs, produces and markets vehicles including automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, scooters, personal watercraft, hovercraft, ATVs, neighborhood electric vehicles and commercial vehicles. The name stands for Zero Air Pollution...
  
  , or Zero Air Pollution, an electric vehicle manufacturer and marketer